Everything that makes the USA the greatest nation on earth: Clean water, safe food, safe effective medicine, police/fire/ems, rule of law, an educated workforce, telecommunications systems that actually work, economic system that lets you work without having to bribe the local government official, or pay "protection money" to the local warlord, etc.

Summed up it could read something like this:

Remember now, we're talking the California Edumacation system, where they tried to chop 10 more days off of the LAUSD School Year.

And where your basic Central LA HS student needs his SAT scores boosted so he can even get into college.

Everything that makes the USA the greatest nation on earth: Clean water, safe food, safe effective medicine, police/fire/ems, rule of law, an educated workforce, system of currency that's fungible across the entire US (and pretty much entire world), telecommunications systems that actually work, economic system that lets you work without having to bribe the local government official, or pay "protection money" to the local warlord, etc.

So you won't really answer the question but instead give a potted response mentioning things that could easily be argued as having nothing to do with tax collection, certainly not federal tax collection?

My question still stands, what do YOU think is an acceptible tax percentage people should pay?

Everything that makes the USA the greatest nation on earth: Clean water, safe food, safe effective medicine, police/fire/ems, rule of law, an educated workforce, system of currency that's fungible across the entire US (and pretty much entire world), telecommunications systems that actually work, economic system that lets you work without having to bribe the local government official, or pay "protection money" to the local warlord, etc.

Summed up it could read something like this:

You obviously have never really seen the sausage made and have never seen the costs of getting a hospital built of get a casino license in certain states.

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."
-- Thomas Paine